ddr-densho-480 — Toru Miyoshi Family Collection

Toru Miyoshi Family Collection

ddr-densho-480

The Toru Miyoshi Family Collection includes negatives retrieved from the basement of the family’s drug store in Santa Maria, California. The collection also includes the 1934-1935 Southern California Nisei Directory, which includes information on Japanese Americans living and working in Southern California, and the 1940-1941 Commemorative Issue 2600th anniversary Yearbook and Directory, primarily for Japanese Americans in California. Accession 2 consists of photographs of the Miyoshi family and the Japanese American community along California’s Central Coast, photographs of Gila River and Butte High School, oral history transcripts, a family biography, and Toru Miyoshi’s autobiography.

1920-1941

Acc 1: 2 books, 1 postcard, 1 correspondence, 64 photographs; Acc 2: 76 photographs, 3 documents, 1 journal, 1 biography, 1 autobiography, 2 transcripts.

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Courtesy of Toru Miyoshi Family Collection, Densho

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177 Objects

doc Southern California Nisei Directory 1934-1935 (ddr-densho-480-1)

A directory of Japanese American citizens and businesses in Southern California.

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doc Commemorative Issue 2600th Anniversary Yearbook and Directory 1940-1941 (ddr-densho-480-2)

The yearbook includes pictures and information about Japanese American businesses, schools, organizations, individuals, and families. The directory includes city indexes for California, as well as a few city indexes for Arizona and Japan, with advertisements for businesses and organizations throughout the city indexes.

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img Blank postcard (ddr-densho-480-3)

A postcard depicting rooms and people inside a Japanese Methodist Home. The text reads "Japanese Methodist Home S.F.".

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doc Letter in Japanese (ddr-densho-480-4)

A letter in Japanese addressed to Mr. Bob Ishii at Stanford University, California. The letter's envelope is from Chas Ishii from El Amigo Co. in Santa Maria, California.

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img The Miyoshi family (including Kumataro, Kiku, Masa, and Toru) poses in front of a car (ddr-densho-480-5)

The Miyoshi family poses in front of a car on the opposite side of a cafe. To the far left is Kumataro Miyoshi, and his wife Kiku Miyoshi is in the middle of the group. Their daughter Masa is third from the right in the group, and the child is her son, Toru. A dog can …

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